Selected Study Writings
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Overview: Books, Articles and Chapters
Chaves, Mark. 2004. Congregations in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. LINK
_______. "Religious Congregations." Pp. 275-298 in The State of Nonprofit America, edited by Lester Salamon. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. PAPER
_______. "Challenges for the 21st Century." The Journal of the Interim Ministry Network, Annual Review. December, 2001, pp. 27-39. PAPER
Chaves, Mark, and Shawna Anderson, "Continuity and Change in American Congregations: Introducing the Second Wave of the National Congregations Study." Sociology of Religion, vol. 69 (Winter 2008), 415-440. LINK
Chaves, Mark, Helen Giesel, and William Tsitsos. 2002. "Religious Variations in Public Presence: Evidence from the National Congregations Study." Pp. 108-128 in The Quiet Hand of God: Faith Based Activism and the Public Role of Mainline Protestantism, edited by Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans. Berkeley: University of California Press. PAPER
Chaves, Mark, Mary Ellen Konieczny, Kraig Beyerlein, and Emily Barman. 1999. "The National Congregations Study: Background, Methods, and Selected Results." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38(4):458-476.LINK
Articles and Chapters on Specific Subjects
Worship
Chaves, Mark. 1999. How Do We Worship? A Report from the National Congregations Study. Washington, DC: Alban Institute Press.
Social Services
Chaves, Mark, Bob Wineburg. Working Paper, Forthcoming 2009. "Did the Faith-Based Initiative Change Congregations?" Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. WORKING PAPER
Chaves, Mark. 2004. Social Services, Chapter 3 in Congregations in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. CHAPTER
Chaves, Mark. 2003. "Debunking Charitable Choice: The evidence doesn't support the political left or right." Stanford Social Innovation Review. LINK
Chaves, Mark. 1999. "Religious Congregations and Welfare Reform: Who Will Take Advantage of 'Charitable Choice'?" American Sociological Review 64:836-846. LINK
_______. "Congregations' Social Service Activities." No. 6 in Charting Civil Society, a series of policy briefs by Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC, 1999. LINK
Chaves, Mark, and William Tsitsos. 2001. "Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 30:660-683. LINK
Myers, Valerie L. 2005. "Black Church Culture, Social Programs and Faith-Based Policy: Using Organization Theory to Reconcile Rhetoric and Reality." African American Research Perspectives 11(1):116-138. LINK
Trinitapoli, Jenny. 2005. "Congregation-based Services for Elders: An Examination of Patterns and Correlates." Research on Aging 27:241-264. LINK
Tsitsos, William. 2003. "Race Differences in Congregational Social Service Activity." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42:205-215. LINK
Politics
Beyerlein, Kraig, and Mark Chaves. "The Political Activities of Religious Congregations in the United States." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42:229-246, 2003. LINK
Brown, Khari. 2004. "Racial Differences in Congregation-based Political Activism" Social Forces 84:1581-1602. LINK
Chaves, Mark, Laura Stephens, and Joseph Galaskiewicz. 2004. "Does Government Funding Suppress Nonprofits' Political Activities?" American Sociological Review 69:292-316. LINK
Gender and Family
adams, jimi. 2007. "Stained Glass Makes the Ceiling Visible: Organizational Opposition to Women in Congregational Leadership." Gender & Society 21:80-105. LINK
Konieczny, Mary Ellen and Mark Chaves. "Resources, Race, and Female-Headed Congregations in the United States." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 39:261-271, 2000. LINK
Wilcox, W. Bradford, Mark Chaves, and David Franz. 2004. "Focused on the Family? Religious Traditions, Family Discourse, and Pastoral Practice." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43:491-504. LINK
Other Subjects
Chaves, Mark and William Tsitsos. "Are Congregations Constrained by Government? Empirical Results from the National Congregations Study." Journal of Church and State 42:335-344, 2000. LINK
Dougherty, Kevin D. and Kimberly R. Huyser. "Racially Diverse Congregations: Organizational Identity and the Accommodation of Differences." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47:23-43, 2008. LINK
Hadaway, C. Kirk and Penny Long Marler. 2005. "How Many Americans Attend Worship Each Week? An Alternative Approach to Measurement." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44:307-322. LINK
Scheitle, Christopher P. 2005. "The Social and Symbolic Boundaries of Congregations: An Analysis of Web site Links." Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, volume 1, Article 6. LINK
Welch, Michael R., David Sikkink, Eric Sartain, and Carolyn Bond. 2004. "Trust in God and Trust in Man: The Ambivalent Role of Religion in Shaping Dimensions of Social Trust." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43:317-343. LINK
